Fateful meeting lights blue touchpaper (Galloway, wife; Zureikat)

The Herald (Scotland) ^ | April 23, 2003

[Shermy]

More Galloway here. Zureikat info.

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks this gets better and better.

[Dog]

Yep as I suspected Galloways Iraqi controller.....

But what is not in doubt is Mr Zureikat's credentials to act as Mr Galloway's go-between for business dealings with the Iraqi regime. With a family history of loyalty to Saddam Hussein's Ba'ath Party - according to his Iraqi intelligence profile - Mr Zureikat, 53, was an ideal choice.

His Mukhabarat secret service dossier refers to him glowingly as a "sympathiser with Iraq". It recorded that he came from a Ba'athist family - his brother was once jailed for his political beliefs in Syria - and commended him for having supplied the Iraqi government with "developed civil and military equipment".

[Shermy]

Hopefully Ivan will translate "lights blue touchpaper" for us.

[lilylangtree]

Sounds like Galloway was a traitor or so weak-minded individual that he should resign from government and go into hiding.

[Dog]

Ping!

[Shermy]

Thanks this gets better and better.

And better than hanging out at those Peterson/Santorum threads. :)

[SauronOfMordor]

Blue Touchpaper A common fuse for garden fireworks,

[backhoe]

Cross-link:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/898108/posts
MP George Galloway- voice cries "peace," hand in Saddam's till...
various FR links | 04-22-03 | The Heavy Equipment Guy

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks for the ping!

Who has control of "the files"?
Are they in Baghdad, or in London?

[Shermy]

Apparently in David Blair's hotel room in Baghdad.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Some official goverment agencies ( British ) need to get control of the files if charges are to be brought against Galloway, I would think!

[blam]

Didn't I read that Fawaz Zureikat has been detained in Jordan?

[El Gato]

Dr Amineh Abu-Zayyad, 36, a Jerusalem-born scientist who married Mr Galloway in a secret ceremony in London in February 2000, had gone to the same university in Jordan as Mr Zureikat.

The plot thickens. Why would the marriage need to be "a secret ceremony". Do we have a modern day Mata Hari here? Hmmm..

[cyncooper]

Rush said today Galloway's Palestinian wife is......


The niece of Yassar Arafat.

Mind you, Rush said it, I have not seen it myself. Obviously he had a source, but I have no idea how reliable.

[aristeides]

That bit about the secret ceremony struck me too.

If the marriage was secret, how does this reporter know about it?

[Shermy]

The plot thickens. Why would the marriage need to be "a secret ceremony". Do we have a modern day Mata Hari here? Hmmm..

I don't know. Maybe Yasser administered the ceremonies?

Actually, wife isn't too religious. They were open about living together outside of marriage for many years. He called her his "partner."

[Shermy]

Seems to be lifted from this site:

http://www.casi.org.uk/discuss/2002/msg01213.html